Ch6 VP2 • VP2. A truck is moving with constantacceleration a up a hill that makes anangle P with the horizontal as in the figureabove. A small sphere of mass m issuspended from the ceiling of the truck bya light cord. If the pendulum makes aconstant angle O with the perpendicular tothe ceiling, what is a?

angle between truck and hill = ϕ pendulum angle = θ mass = m

Answered: • VP2. A truck is moving with constant…

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